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The Libyan divers facing daily horror to retrieve Derna’s dead

Bashir Saqr El-Hassi with his team of local divers tasked with finding missing bodies off the coast of Libya [Ahmed Zidane/Al Jazeera]

Of all the things he’s found in the blue Mediterranean waters of Derna, the many bodies of children with vacant eye sockets and protruding bones haunt Bashir Saqr El-Hassi the most.

The 42-year-old Libyan coastguard diver is solemn as he describes the experience of pulling out bodies that are still in the sea in the aftermath of the devastating dam rupture near Derna in early September.

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